Global strategy for infant and young child feeding [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Geneva, : World Health Organization, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (37 p.)
• Disciplina: 613.20832
• Soggetto topico: Infants - Nutrition; Children - Nutrition
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; Foreword; Introduction; Global strategy for infant and young child feeding; Defining the challenge; Determining the aim and objectives; Promoting appropriate feeding for infants and young children; Exercising other feeding options; Feeding in exceptionally difficult circumstances; Improving feeding practices; Achieving the strategy's objectives; Implementing high-priority action; Obligations and responsibilities; Conclusion; Annex: Resolution WHA55.25, Infant and young child nutrition; Endorsement of the UNICEF Executive Board
• Sommario/riassunto: WHO and UNICEF jointly developed this global strategy to focus world attention on the impact that feeding practices have on the nutritional status, growth and development, health, and thus the very survival of infants and young children. The strategy is the result of a comprehensive two-year participatory process. It is based on the evidence of nutrition's significance in the early months and years of life, and of the crucial role that appropriate feeding practices play in achieving optimal health outcomes. The strategy is intended as a guide for action; it identifies interventions with a prov
• Titolo autorizzato: Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
• ISBN: 9781417524537; 1-4175-2453-7; 92-4-068045-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783085603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II